The Harrodian School is an independent day school in Barnes, south-west London. Formerly the site of Harrods Sports Club, the original premises has been extended and converted for educational purposes, the school opened in September 1993 with just 65 pupils; by 2011 the roll had grown to 925.

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Until 1988 the site had been a clubhouse and sports ground for employees of Harrods department store, and known as the Harrodian Club. While the store's owner Mohamed Al-Fayed sold the grounds, he was not happy that the school took the name, and in fact challenged this in court.[1]

Eliana Houstoun-Boswall was the founding headmistress, but in 1996 was left by her husband after her affair with a teacher became public, the publicity again prompted Harrods to object to the school's perceived connection to them.[2][3] She has gone on to found another independent school - Hampton Court House.

By September 2010 the school had grown to 1500 pupils and 120 members of staff.

As of 2015 the school charges tuition fees of (term/year): £4,431/£13,293 (4.5–7 years of age); £5,076/£15,228 (8–12 years); £5,867/£17,601 (13–15 years) and £6,766/£20,298 (sixth form). In addition to tuition fees, charges are made for: lunch; insurance and registration, these additional charges amount to approximately £1,000/year.[6]

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Independent School (UK)
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For example, pupils do not have to follow the National Curriculum. Seven of the older, expensive and more schools catering for the 13–18 age-range in England. The term public being derived from the fact that they were open to pupils regardless of where they lived or their religion, prep schools, educate younger children up to the age of 13 to prepare them for entry to the public schools and other independent schools. Some former grammar schools converted to an independent fee paying model following the 1965 Circular 10/65 which marked the end of their state funding, others converted into comprehensive schools. There are around 2,500 independent schools in the UK, in addition to charging tuition fees, many also benefit from gifts, charitable endowments and charitable status. Many of these schools are members of the Independent Schools Council and these schools were founded as part of the church and were under their complete dominion. However, it was during the late 14th & early 15th centuries that the first schools, winchester & Oswestry were the first of their kind and paved the way for the establishment of the modern Public school. These were often established for scholars from poor or disadvantaged backgrounds, however, English law has always regarded education as a charitable end in itself. For instance, the Queens Scholarships founded at Westminster in 1560, are for the sons of decayd gentlemen, also, facilities already provided by the charitable foundation for a few scholars could profitably be extended to further paying pupils. After a time, such fees would eclipse the original charitable income, in 2009 senior boarding schools were charging fees of between £16,000 and nearly £30,000 per annum. However, majority of the independent schools today are still registered as a charity, christs Hospital in Horsham is one of the examples, large proposition of its students are funded by its charitable foundation or by various benefactors. Most public schools developed significantly during the 18th and 19th centuries, under a number of forward-looking headmasters leading public schools created a curriculum based heavily on classics and physical activity for boys and young men of the upper and upper middle classes. They were schools for the elite of Victorian politics, armed forces. Often successful businessmen would send their sons to a school as a mark of participation in the elite. More recently heads of schools have been emphasising that senior pupils now play a much reduced role in disciplining. To an extent, the school system influenced the school systems of the British Empire. Until 1975 there had been a group of 179 academically selective schools drawing on both private and state funding, the direct grant grammar schools, the Direct Grant Grammar Schools Regulations 1975 required these schools to choose between full state funding as comprehensive schools and full independence. As a result,119 of these schools became independent, pupil numbers at independent schools fell slightly during the mid-1970s recession

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Warwick School, one of Britain's oldest independent schools.
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Fettes College is one of Scotland's most famous independent schools, particularly since the 1997 Labour Government led by former pupil, Tony Blair.

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Department for Education
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The Department for Education is a department of Her Majestys Government responsible for child protection, education, apprenticeships and wider skills in England. The DfE is also responsible for women and equalities policy, the DfE was formed on 12 May 2010 by the incoming Cameron ministry, taking on the responsibilities and resources of the Department for Children, Schools and Families. In July 2016, the Department took over responsibilities for higher and further education and for apprenticeship from the dissolved Department for Business, Innovation, the Permanent Secretary is Jonathan Slater. DfE is responsible for education, children’s services, higher and further education policy, apprenticeships and wider skills in England, and equalities. The predecessor department employed the equivalent of 2,695 staff as of April 2008 and as at June 2016, in 2015-16, the DfE has a budget of £58. 2bn, which includes £53. 6bn resource spending and £4. 6bn of capital investments. The EFA was formed on 1 April 2012 by bringing together the functions of two non-departmental public bodies, the Young Peoples Learning Agency and Partnerships for Schools and it was established on 1 April 2013, when the Teaching Agency merged with the National College for School Leadership. The Skills Funding Agency is responsible for funding skills training for further education in England, as well as running the National Apprenticeship Service, the SFA was formed on 1 April 2010, following the closure of the Learning and Skills Council. It shares a Chief Executive, Peter Lauener, and Chief Financial Officer with the Education Funding Agency, the Standards and Testing Agency is responsible for developing and delivering all statutory assessments for school pupils in England. It was formed on 1 October 2011 and took over the functions of the Qualifications, the STA is regulated by the examinations regulator, Ofqual. The DfE is also supported by 10 public bodies, Education, youth, following Michael Goves speech in 2012, the subject of Information Communication Technology has been disapplied and replaced by Computing. With the new curriculum, materials have been written by companies, to support non-specialist teachers. The Computing at Schools organisation has created a Network of Teaching Excellence to support schools with the new curriculum, deflecting European Union influence on national education policy-making, the case of the United Kingdom. Official website Official department YouTube channel Official Flickr presence

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Independent school (UK)
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For example, pupils do not have to follow the National Curriculum. Seven of the older, expensive and more schools catering for the 13–18 age-range in England. The term public being derived from the fact that they were open to pupils regardless of where they lived or their religion, prep schools, educate younger children up to the age of 13 to prepare them for entry to the public schools and other independent schools. Some former grammar schools converted to an independent fee paying model following the 1965 Circular 10/65 which marked the end of their state funding, others converted into comprehensive schools. There are around 2,500 independent schools in the UK, in addition to charging tuition fees, many also benefit from gifts, charitable endowments and charitable status. Many of these schools are members of the Independent Schools Council and these schools were founded as part of the church and were under their complete dominion. However, it was during the late 14th & early 15th centuries that the first schools, winchester & Oswestry were the first of their kind and paved the way for the establishment of the modern Public school. These were often established for scholars from poor or disadvantaged backgrounds, however, English law has always regarded education as a charitable end in itself. For instance, the Queens Scholarships founded at Westminster in 1560, are for the sons of decayd gentlemen, also, facilities already provided by the charitable foundation for a few scholars could profitably be extended to further paying pupils. After a time, such fees would eclipse the original charitable income, in 2009 senior boarding schools were charging fees of between £16,000 and nearly £30,000 per annum. However, majority of the independent schools today are still registered as a charity, christs Hospital in Horsham is one of the examples, large proposition of its students are funded by its charitable foundation or by various benefactors. Most public schools developed significantly during the 18th and 19th centuries, under a number of forward-looking headmasters leading public schools created a curriculum based heavily on classics and physical activity for boys and young men of the upper and upper middle classes. They were schools for the elite of Victorian politics, armed forces. Often successful businessmen would send their sons to a school as a mark of participation in the elite. More recently heads of schools have been emphasising that senior pupils now play a much reduced role in disciplining. To an extent, the school system influenced the school systems of the British Empire. Until 1975 there had been a group of 179 academically selective schools drawing on both private and state funding, the direct grant grammar schools, the Direct Grant Grammar Schools Regulations 1975 required these schools to choose between full state funding as comprehensive schools and full independence. As a result,119 of these schools became independent, pupil numbers at independent schools fell slightly during the mid-1970s recession

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Warwick School, one of Britain's oldest independent schools.
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Fettes College is one of Scotland's most famous independent schools, particularly since the 1997 Labour Government led by former pupil, Tony Blair.

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Barnes, London
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Barnes is a suburban district in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It is located in the extreme northeast of the borough and it is centred 5.8 miles west south-west of Charing Cross in a bend of the River Thames. On the east riverside is the WWT London Wetland Centre adjoining several fields for the three national team sports. The Thames Path National Trail provides a promenade along the entire bend of the river which is on the Championship Course in rowing. Barnes has two stations and is served by bus routes towards central London and Richmond. Hammersmith Bridge at the north end links Barnes to the centre of Hammersmith, Barnes adjoins the South Circular Road and Putney, which forms a rival commercial hub to Hammersmith. Unlike Mortlake and Hammersmith, Barnes has no dual carriageways, the locality is one of a minority at its radius from the centre of London in the early 21st century to be defined by suburban by a Greater London Authority paper. Barnes has two railway stations, Barnes Bridge railway station Barnes railway station Its nearest tube station is Hammersmith. London Buses serving Barnes are, Historically part of Surrey, Barnes appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Berne. It was held by the Canons of St Paul of London when its assets were,8 hides and it rendered to its feudal system overlords £7 per year. The original Norman chapel of St Marys, Barnes village church, was built at some point between 1100 and 1150, and was extended in the early 13th century. In 1215, immediately after confirming the sealing of the Magna Carta, Stephen Langton, the church was added to in 1485 and in 1786. After a major fire in 1978 destroyed the Victorian and Edwardian additions to the building, some of the oldest riverside housing in London is to be found on the Terrace, a road lined with Georgian mansions which runs along the west bend of the river. Construction of these began as early as 1720. Gustav Holst and Ninette de Valois lived in houses on this stretch, the Terrace also has an original red brick police station, built in 1891. It has been remodelled as flats but still preserves the original features, the Grade II listed Barnes Railway Bridge, originally constructed in 1849 by Joseph Locke, dominates the view of the river from the Terrace. In 2009, a project began to re-paint the bridge, Castelnau, in north Barnes and on the banks of the river, has a small church, Holy Trinity. The area between Castelnau and Lonsdale Road contains a 1930s council estate, mostly consisting of Boot Houses, a 2014 survey found that Barnes had the highest proportion of independent shops of any area in Britain, at 96. 6%

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Barnes riverside from the bridge
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Marc Bolan's shrine, on what would have been his 60th birthday, 30 September 2007
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The Bull's Head
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Barnes Pond with the Sun Inn in the background

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London
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London /ˈlʌndən/ is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom. Standing on the River Thames in the south east of the island of Great Britain and it was founded by the Romans, who named it Londinium. Londons ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its 1. 12-square-mile medieval boundaries. London is a global city in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism. It is crowned as the worlds largest financial centre and has the fifth- or sixth-largest metropolitan area GDP in the world, London is a world cultural capital. It is the worlds most-visited city as measured by international arrivals and has the worlds largest city airport system measured by passenger traffic, London is the worlds leading investment destination, hosting more international retailers and ultra high-net-worth individuals than any other city. Londons universities form the largest concentration of education institutes in Europe. In 2012, London became the first city to have hosted the modern Summer Olympic Games three times, London has a diverse range of people and cultures, and more than 300 languages are spoken in the region. Its estimated mid-2015 municipal population was 8,673,713, the largest of any city in the European Union, Londons urban area is the second most populous in the EU, after Paris, with 9,787,426 inhabitants at the 2011 census. The citys metropolitan area is the most populous in the EU with 13,879,757 inhabitants, the city-region therefore has a similar land area and population to that of the New York metropolitan area. London was the worlds most populous city from around 1831 to 1925, Other famous landmarks include Buckingham Palace, the London Eye, Piccadilly Circus, St Pauls Cathedral, Tower Bridge, Trafalgar Square, and The Shard. The London Underground is the oldest underground railway network in the world, the etymology of London is uncertain. It is an ancient name, found in sources from the 2nd century and it is recorded c.121 as Londinium, which points to Romano-British origin, and hand-written Roman tablets recovered in the city originating from AD 65/70-80 include the word Londinio. The earliest attempted explanation, now disregarded, is attributed to Geoffrey of Monmouth in Historia Regum Britanniae and this had it that the name originated from a supposed King Lud, who had allegedly taken over the city and named it Kaerlud. From 1898, it was accepted that the name was of Celtic origin and meant place belonging to a man called *Londinos. The ultimate difficulty lies in reconciling the Latin form Londinium with the modern Welsh Llundain, which should demand a form *lōndinion, from earlier *loundiniom. The possibility cannot be ruled out that the Welsh name was borrowed back in from English at a later date, and thus cannot be used as a basis from which to reconstruct the original name. Until 1889, the name London officially applied only to the City of London, two recent discoveries indicate probable very early settlements near the Thames in the London area

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Harrods
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Harrods is a luxury department store located on Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, London. It is owned by the state of Qatar, the store occupies a 5-acre site and has 330 departments covering one million square feet of retail space. The Harrods motto is Omnia Omnibus Ubique, which is Latin for all things for all people, several of its departments, including the seasonal Christmas department and the food halls, are well known. In 1824, at the age of 25, Charles Henry Harrod established a business at 228 Borough High Street in Southwark and he ran this business, variously listed as a draper, mercer, and a haberdasher, until 1831 at least. During 1825, the business was listed as Harrod and Wicking, Linen Drapers, Retail and his first grocery business appears to be as ‘Harrod & Co. Grocers’ at 163 Upper Whitecross Street, Clerkenwell, E. C.1. in 1832. In 1834 in Londons East End, he established a grocery in Stepney, at 4, Cable Street. Harrods rapidly expanded, acquired the buildings, and employed one hundred people by 1880. However, the stores booming fortunes were reversed in early December 1883, remarkably, in view of this calamity, Charles Harrod fulfilled all of his commitments to his customers to make Christmas deliveries that year—and made a record profit in the process. A. Milne, and many members of the British Royal Family, a chance meeting in London with businessman, Edgar Cohen, eventually led to Charles Harrod selling his interest in the store for £120,000 via a stock market floatation in 1889. The new company was called Harrod’s Stores Limited, sir Alfred James Newton became chairman and Richard Burbidge managing director. Financier William Mendel was appointed to the board in 1891 and he raised funding for many of the expansion plans. Richard Burbidge was succeed in 1917 by his son Woodman Burbidge, nervous customers were offered brandy at the top to revive them after their ordeal. The department store was purchased by the Fayed brothers in 1985, following denial that it was for sale, Harrods was sold to Qatar Holdings, the sovereign wealth fund of the State of Qatar in May 2010. A fortnight previously, chairman of Harrods since 1985, Mohamed Al-Fayed, had stated that People approach us from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, but I put two fingers up to them. This is not Marks and Spencer or Sainsburys and it is a special place that gives people pleasure. A spokesman for Mohamed Al-Fayed said in reaching the decision to retire, wished to ensure that the legacy, Harrods was sold for £1.5 billion, half of the sale will be used to pay bank debts of £625 million. Al-Fayed later revealed in an interview that he decided to sell Harrods following the difficulty in getting his dividend approved by the trustee of the Harrods pension fund. Al-Fayed said Im here every day, I cant take my profit because I have to take a permission of those bloody idiots. I say is this right, I run a business and I need to take the trustees permission to take my profit

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Mohamed Al-Fayed
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Mohamed Al-Fayed is an Egyptian business magnate. Fayeds business interests include ownership of Hôtel Ritz Paris and formerly Harrods Department Store, Al-Fayed sold his ownership of Fulham F. C. to Shahid Khan in 2013. Fayed has four siblings, Ali, Salah, Soaad and Safia, Fayeds eldest son, Dodi, from his first marriage to Samira Khashoggi, died in a car crash in Paris with Diana, Princess of Wales and driver Henri Paul on 31 August 1997. Fayed married Finnish socialite and former model Heini Wathén in 1985, with whom he has four children, Jasmine, Karim, Camilla, in 2013, Fayeds wealth was estimated at US$1.4 billion, making him the 1, 031st-richest person in the world in 2013. Born on 27 January 1929 in Bakos, Alexandria, Egypt and he was married for two years, from 1954 to 1956, to Samira Khashoggi. Fayed worked for his wifes brother, Saudi Arabian arms dealer, Fayeds addition of Al- to his name, which implies aristocratic origins, has led to Private Eye nicknaming him the Phoney Pharaoh. According to his biographer Tom Bower, Fayed also claimed to have come from a town named Fayed after his family, Fayed and his brothers founded a shipping company in Egypt before moving its headquarters to Genoa, Italy with additional offices in London. Around 1964 Fayed entered a relationship with Haitian leader François Duvalier, known as Papa Doc Duvalier. He also associated with the geologist George de Mohrenschildt, Fayed terminated his stay in Haiti six months later when a sample of crude oil provided by Haitian associates proved to be low-grade molasses. It was then that Fayed moved to England where he lived in central London, in the mid 1960s, Fayed met the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Rashid al Makhtoum who entrusted Fayed with helping transform Dubai. Fayed introduced British companies like the Costain Group, Bernard Sunley & Sons and he also became a financial adviser to the then Sultan of Brunei Omar Ali Saifuddien III, in 1966. Fayed set up IMS in 1968 in Dubai and he briefly joined the board of the mining conglomerate Lonrho in 1975 but left after a disagreement. In 1979, Fayed bought The Ritz hotel in Paris, France for US$30 million. In 1984, Fayed and his brothers purchased a 30 percent stake in House of Fraser, a group included the famous London store Harrods, from Roland Tiny Rowland. In 1985, he and his brothers bought the remaining 70 percent of House of Fraser for £615m, Rowland claimed the Fayed brothers had lied about their background and wealth and put pressure on the government to investigate them. A Department of Trade and Industry inquiry into the Fayeds was launched, the DTIs subsequent report was critical, but no action was taken against the Fayeds, and while many believed the contents of the report, others felt it was politically motivated. In 1998, Rowland accused Fayed of stealing papers and jewels from his Harrods safe deposit box, Fayed was arrested, but the charges were dropped. Fayed settled the dispute with a payment to his widow, he sued the Metropolitan Police for false arrest in 2002

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Fayed in 2011

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Hampton Court House
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Hampton Court House is an 18th-century building on the edge of Bushy Park in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, built the house in 1757, Hampton Court House houses a co-educational independent school and also hosts events such as weddings and the filming of movies. Hampton Court House School opened its doors in September 2001 after extensive refurbishments, the Sixth Form, led by former Westminster School headmaster Tristram Jones-Parry, opened in September 2015. It was the first school in the UK to start lessons in the afternoon, the Grade II* listed building fronts Hampton Court Green and backs on to Bushy Park. It was built around 1757 by George Montagu Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, for his mistress Mrs Anna Maria Donaldson, and was designed by architect Thomas Wright. In 1771, after the death of the Earl, it was let to the Earl of Suffolk, then to the 4th Earl of Sandwich, Charles Bingham, Admiral Lord Keith, and the 3rd Earl of Kelly. In 1883, Thomas Twining of the Twinings family of tea, in 1971, the Teddington Theatre Club converted the picture gallery into a theatre

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Hampton Court House

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Robert Pattinson
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Robert Douglas Thomas Pattinson is an English actor, producer, model, and musician. Pattinson started his career by playing Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Twilight brought Pattinson worldwide fame, and established him among the highest paid, in 2009, he portrayed Salvador Dalí in Little Ashes. That same year, a film, Robsessed, about the actors fame. He appeared as a young man in Remember Me and also starred in a romantic drama. His performance as a tough, cold-hearted and calculating billionaire in David Cronenbergs Cosmopolis, Pattinson started his career as a model at the age of 12. In 2013 Dior Homme signed him as the face of their Fragrances, in 2016, he also became the first brand ambassador of their Menswear collection. Pattinson composes and plays his own music and he has sang songs for Twilight film series and the 2008 independent comedy-drama film How to Be. He became ambassador of the latter in 2015 to help raise awareness of it. He is also a member of International Medical Corps and has promoted and shared details about cancer through PSAs to raise awareness about the disease and his father, Richard, imported vintage cars from the United States, and his mother, Clare, worked for a modelling agency. Pattinson has two sisters, Victoria and singer Elizabeth Lizzy Pattinson. Growing up in Barnes, London, he attended Tower House School until he was 12 and he became involved in amateur theatre at the Barnes Theatre Company. He auditioned and was cast in a role in Guys. He next auditioned for Thornton Wilders Our Town, and was cast as George Gibbs and he also appeared in Anything Goes and Macbeth. He caught the attention of an agent in a production of Tess of the dUrbervilles. In May 2005, he was scheduled to appear in the UK premiere of The Woman Before at the Royal Court Theatre, later that year he played Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. For this role he was named that years British Star of Tomorrow by The Times and had more than once been hailed as the next Jude Law. In 2006, Pattinson appeared in The Haunted Airman a psychological thriller, aired on BBC Four on 31 October, the Stage praised his performance by saying that played the airman of the title with a perfect combination of youthful terror and world weary cynicism

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George MacKay (actor)
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George MacKay is an English actor. MacKay was born in London, the son of Kim Baker, a designer, and Paul MacKay. In 2002, MacKay was spotted whilst at The Harrodian School by an acting scout and he attended a workshop, and won the role of one of the Lost Boys, Curly, in what was his big break. In 2005, at the age of 13, he won the role of Riccio in The Thief Lord and he was also cast in the lead role in Johnny and the Bomb, a BBC three-part television drama adapted from Terry Pratchetts novel of the same name. He later applied unsuccessfully to both RADA and LAMDA, mcKay had some work in television, including roles in Rose and Maloney, Footprints in the Snow and The Brief. In the 2008 film Defiance MacKay played Aron, the youngest of the four Bielski brothers and he co-starred in the Marc Evans-directed musical film Hunky Dory opposite Minnie Driver, Aneurin Barnard and Kimberley Nixon, which is set in 1970s Swansea. In 2012 he played the character, Private Tommo Peaceful, in Private Peaceful. In 2014 MacKay played the role of Joe, a 20-year-old struggling to come out in a homophobic Britain in 1984 in the film Pride also starring Bill Nighy. In the film Joe finds friends in the form of a group called LGSM, from 14 April -23 May 2015 Mackay took the lead part as Richard Miller in Eugene ONeills coming-of-age play, Ah, Wilderness. Directed by Natalie Abrahami at The Young Vic, in July 2015, MacKay played the title role of Lewis Aldridge in the BBC’s two-part television adaptation of Sadie Jones’ debut novel The Outcast. In February 2016, he portrayed the part of Bill Turcott in the Hulu production of Stephen Kings sci-fi/suspense thriller 11.22.63. From 29 March -14 May 2016 MacKay played the part of Mick in Harold Pinters play The Caretaker directed by Matthew Warchus at The Old Vic Theatre in London opposite Timothy Spall, in the 2016 film Captain Fantastic, MacKay played Bodevan, eldest son of Ben Cash. George MacKay at the Internet Movie Database

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Will Poulter
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For his work in Were the Millers, Poulter won the BAFTA Rising Star Award. Poulter was born in Hammersmith, London, the son of Caroline, a nurse, and Neil Poulter. His mother was raised in an Anglo family in Kenya, where her father was a game warden and he also performed with other young comedic actors in School of Comedy, which aired its pilot on Channel 4s Comedy Lab on 21 August 2008. School of Comedy was then commissioned for a series by Channel 4. The programme finished after a second series, in 2009, he was selected to play the role of Eustace Scrubb in the film The Chronicles of Narnia, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and was accompanied by some members of his family. The movie was first screened on 10 December 2010, the film opened to mixed reviews, but Poulters performance was well received. In 2010, he appeared in the BBC Three pilot The Fades, the pilot has been commissioned to be written as six-part series with almost entirely a new cast. Poulter began filming a small British independent film called Wild Bill, directed by Dexter Fletcher, at the end of 2010. It centres around Bill Hayward, played by Charlie Creed-Miles, who, on parole after spending eight years in prison, finds his two sons, Dean and Jimmy, living alone abandoned by their mother. With the attention of social services now focused on the boys, the film was released on 23 March 2012 to extremely positive reviews, with praise for Poulters performance. In 2011, Poulter appeared with the popular British blogger and his School of Comedy co-star Jack Harries on his YouTube channel by the name of JacksGap in a video called Jack, in 2013, he played Kenny in Were the Millers, starring Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis. While the film opened to mixed reviews, the performances of the cast were well-received and he also appeared as a caretaker in the music video for Rizzle Kicks song Skip to the Good Bit. In 2014, he played Fordy in the crime film Plastic, directed by Julian Gilbey and starring Ed Speleers, Alfie Allen, Sebastian De Souza, the film was critically panned on release. The same year, he played Gally in the adaptation, The Maze Runner, alongside Dylan OBrien. The film was a critical and commercial success, with the performances of the cast being praised, in 2015, Poulter starred as Shane in the Irish indie film Glassland, directed by Gerard Barrett and co-starring Jack Reynor and Toni Collette. The film was a success, with many reviewers praising Poulters performance in particular as being his most diverse role to date. In an interview with BBC Radio 1, Poulter stated the film was the proudest Ive been to be a part of a movie, in 2014, Poulter won the BAFTA Rising Star Award, voted for by the public. Other actors nominated for the award were Lupita Nyongo, George MacKay, Léa Seydoux, the same year, he also won the MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance and the MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss for his performance in Were the Millers

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Jack Whitehall
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Jack Peter Benedict Whitehall is an English comedian, television presenter and actor. He is best known for his stand up comedy and for starring as JP in the TV series Fresh Meat, since 2012, he has been a regular panellist on the game show A League of Their Own. He also hosts Backchat with his father, Michael and his father was an agent for Judi Dench, Colin Firth and Richard Griffiths, and wrote the memoir Shark-Infested Waters. Whitehall has a sister, Molly Louisa, and a brother and he had two godfathers—Nigel Havers and the late Richard Griffiths, both actors. He attended Tower House School in East Sheen, west London and he has made jokes about this, often mentioning that he resented Pattinsons taking all the best acting roles in the school plays. Whitehall has also mentioned in an interview how he auditioned for the role of Harry Potter after the team visited his school. He went on to attend the Dragon School in Oxford and then Marlborough College, Whitehall took a gap year where he decided to pursue a career in stand-up comedy. He attended the University of Manchester for two terms only, to study History of Art and he has stated that his comedy hero is Jack Dee, having briefly met him as a teenager. In 1997 Whitehall then aged nine appeared in the series Noahs Ark, in June 2008, Whitehall presented the first week of Big Brothers Big Mouth on E4, returning in August to host the twelfth week. In September and November, Whitehall made his first and second of many appearances on Channel 4s 8 Out of 10 Cats. In January 2009, he hosted Celebrity Big Brothers Big Mouth, during which he appeared on The Sunday Night Project, in June 2009 Whitehall co-hosted the satirical TNT Show with Holly Walsh on Channel 4. In August, he appeared on Charlie Brookers Channel 4 panel show You Have Been Watching and he made his first of many appearances on BBC Two satirical panel show Mock the Week, and in October, he guest-presented an episode of Never Mind the Buzzcocks. In January 2010, Whitehall made his appearance in 8 Out of 10 Cats, followed in February by his second appearance on Mock the Week. In April, he featured on Channel 4s Comedy Gala, a show held in aid of Great Ormond Street Childrens Hospital. In April, he appeared on James Cordens sport show A League of Their Own, and on 11 June made his fifth appearance on 8 Out of 10 Cats, followed in June by his third appearance on Mock the Week. In June and July 2010, Whitehall was a performer on the first series of Channel 4s Stand Up for the Week alongside Andi Osho, Kevin Bridges, Rich Hall. In September he made his appearance on 8 Out of 10 Cats. In October, he appeared on a episode of Argumental

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Whitehall in 2014, playing in a charity football match

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Jack Harries
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JacksGap was a British YouTube channel run by identical twins Jackson Frayn Jack Harries and Finnegan Frayn Finn Harries. JacksGap has more than 4 million subscribers, originally created by Jack Harries to document his gap-year in mid-2011, the channel experienced a rapid increase in popularity after the addition of Finn Harries as a regular contributor. In February 2017 the Twitter and Instagram accounts for JacksGap were deleted, JacksGap was originally launched in July 2011 by Jack Harries during his gap year after he had left school. The main purpose of the channel was to document Jacks gap year, by September 2012 the site had 190,000 subscribers and the pay-per-click advertising revenue was enough to entirely finance the Harries travels in Thailand. After Finn joined the channel, the views nearly doubled, JacksGap attracts teenage girls in particular, with 88% of subscribers in this demographic. In 2013 the twins began to create 15-minute-long episodes about their travels in India, funding the venture with £20,000 from Skype, Sony, as of March 2015, JacksGap has over 4 million subscribers. The last video to be uploaded on the channel was made in December 2015, the official twitter account has also been deleted and the handle relinquished, now owned by a member of the public with no affiliation to Jacksgap

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Finn (left) and Jack Harries in 2014

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Finn Harries
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JacksGap was a British YouTube channel run by identical twins Jackson Frayn Jack Harries and Finnegan Frayn Finn Harries. JacksGap has more than 4 million subscribers, originally created by Jack Harries to document his gap-year in mid-2011, the channel experienced a rapid increase in popularity after the addition of Finn Harries as a regular contributor. In February 2017 the Twitter and Instagram accounts for JacksGap were deleted, JacksGap was originally launched in July 2011 by Jack Harries during his gap year after he had left school. The main purpose of the channel was to document Jacks gap year, by September 2012 the site had 190,000 subscribers and the pay-per-click advertising revenue was enough to entirely finance the Harries travels in Thailand. After Finn joined the channel, the views nearly doubled, JacksGap attracts teenage girls in particular, with 88% of subscribers in this demographic. In 2013 the twins began to create 15-minute-long episodes about their travels in India, funding the venture with £20,000 from Skype, Sony, as of March 2015, JacksGap has over 4 million subscribers. The last video to be uploaded on the channel was made in December 2015, the official twitter account has also been deleted and the handle relinquished, now owned by a member of the public with no affiliation to Jacksgap

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Finn (left) and Jack Harries in 2014

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The Daily Telegraph
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It was founded by Arthur B. Sleigh in 1855 as The Daily Telegraph and Courier, the papers motto, Was, is, and will be, appears in the editorial pages and has featured in every edition of the newspaper since April 19,1858. The paper had a circulation of 460,054 in December 2016 and its sister paper, The Sunday Telegraph, which started in 1961, had a circulation of 359,287 as of December 2016. The Daily Telegraph has the largest circulation for a newspaper in the UK. The two sister newspapers are run separately, with different editorial staff, but there is cross-usage of stories, articles published in either may be published on the Telegraph Media Groups www. telegraph. co. uk website, under the title of The Telegraph. However, critics, including an editor, accuse it of being unduly influenced by advertisers. The Daily Telegraph and Courier was founded by Colonel Arthur B, Sleigh in June 1855 to air a personal grievance against the future commander-in-chief of the British Army, Prince George, Duke of Cambridge. Joseph Moses Levy, the owner of The Sunday Times, agreed to print the newspaper, the paper cost 2d and was four pages long. Nevertheless, the first edition stressed the quality and independence of its articles and journalists, however, the paper was not a success, and Sleigh was unable to pay Levy the printing bill. Levy took over the newspaper, his aim being to produce a newspaper than his main competitors in London. The same principle should apply to all other events—to fashion, to new inventions, in 1876, Jules Verne published his novel Michael Strogoff, whose plot takes place during a fictional uprising and war in Siberia. In 1937, the newspaper absorbed The Morning Post, which espoused a conservative position. Originally William Ewart Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose, bought The Morning Post with the intention of publishing it alongside The Daily Telegraph, for some years the paper was retitled The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post before it reverted to just The Daily Telegraph. As an result, Gordon Lennox was monitored by MI5, in 1939, The Telegraph published Clare Hollingworths scoop that Germany was to invade Poland. In November 1940, with Fleet Street subjected to almost daily bombing raids by the Luftwaffe, The Telegraph started printing in Manchester at Kemsley House, Manchester quite often printed the entire run of The Telegraph when its Fleet Street offices were under threat. The name Kemsley House was changed to Thomson House in 1959, in 1986 printing of Northern editions of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph moved to Trafford Park and in 2008 to Newsprinters at Knowsley, Liverpool. During the Second World War, The Daily Telegraph covertly helped in the recruitment of code-breakers for Bletchley Park, the ability to solve The Telegraphs crossword in under 12 minutes was considered to be a recruitment test. The competition itself was won by F. H. W. Hawes of Dagenham who finished the crossword in less than eight minutes, both the Camrose and Burnham families remained involved in management until Conrad Black took control in 1986

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The Daily Telegraph front page on 29 June 2015
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In 1882 The Daily Telegraph moved to new Fleet Street premises, which were pictured in the Illustrated London News.
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The Daily Telegraph building in 1974

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Department for Children, Schools and Families
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The DCSF was replaced by the Department for Education after the change of government following the General Election 2010. The DCSF was created on 28 June 2007 following the demerger of the Department for Education, the department was led by Ed Balls. The Permanent Secretary was David Bell, other education functions of the former DfES were taken over by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. The DCSF was directly responsible for schools in England. The Department employed over 2,500 staff, the department adopted a child friendly visual identity, known as Building the Rainbow shortly after it was established. The main features of the identity were a rainbow logo. The lettering on the logo was all in lower case despite being a proper noun and it was reported in the Daily Telegraph that several thousand pounds were spent on adopting and implementing this visual identity. The Department also came under criticism during the 2010 General Election, other features include a grand glass and steel staircase and imported Italian designer furniture. The total cost of the refit was estimated to be three million pounds, at a time when the department needed to two billion pounds of savings

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BBC
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The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. The total number of staff is 35,402 when part-time, flexible, the BBC is established under a Royal Charter and operates under its Agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. The fee is set by the British Government, agreed by Parliament, and used to fund the BBCs radio, TV, britains first live public broadcast from the Marconi factory in Chelmsford took place in June 1920. It was sponsored by the Daily Mails Lord Northcliffe and featured the famous Australian Soprano Dame Nellie Melba, the Melba broadcast caught the peoples imagination and marked a turning point in the British publics attitude to radio. However, this public enthusiasm was not shared in official circles where such broadcasts were held to interfere with important military and civil communications. By late 1920, pressure from these quarters and uneasiness among the staff of the licensing authority, the General Post Office, was sufficient to lead to a ban on further Chelmsford broadcasts. But by 1922, the GPO had received nearly 100 broadcast licence requests, John Reith, a Scottish Calvinist, was appointed its General Manager in December 1922 a few weeks after the company made its first official broadcast. The company was to be financed by a royalty on the sale of BBC wireless receiving sets from approved manufacturers, to this day, the BBC aims to follow the Reithian directive to inform, educate and entertain. The financial arrangements soon proved inadequate, set sales were disappointing as amateurs made their own receivers and listeners bought rival unlicensed sets. By mid-1923, discussions between the GPO and the BBC had become deadlocked and the Postmaster-General commissioned a review of broadcasting by the Sykes Committee and this was to be followed by a simple 10 shillings licence fee with no royalty once the wireless manufactures protection expired. The BBCs broadcasting monopoly was made explicit for the duration of its current broadcast licence, the BBC was also banned from presenting news bulletins before 19.00, and required to source all news from external wire services. Mid-1925 found the future of broadcasting under further consideration, this time by the Crawford committee, by now the BBC under Reiths leadership had forged a consensus favouring a continuation of the unified broadcasting service, but more money was still required to finance rapid expansion. Wireless manufacturers were anxious to exit the loss making consortium with Reith keen that the BBC be seen as a service rather than a commercial enterprise. The recommendations of the Crawford Committee were published in March the following year and were still under consideration by the GPO when the 1926 general strike broke out in May. The strike temporarily interrupted newspaper production and with restrictions on news bulletins waived the BBC suddenly became the source of news for the duration of the crisis. The crisis placed the BBC in a delicate position, the Government was divided on how to handle the BBC but ended up trusting Reith, whose opposition to the strike mirrored the PMs own. Thus the BBC was granted sufficient leeway to pursue the Governments objectives largely in a manner of its own choosing, supporters of the strike nicknamed the BBC the BFC for British Falsehood Company. Reith personally announced the end of the strike which he marked by reciting from Blakes Jerusalem signifying that England had been saved, Reith argued that trust gained by authentic impartial news could then be used

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Grey Court School
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Grey Court School is a mixed-sex High School Academy in London, England. It is twinned with Alexander-von-Humboldt-Gymnasium in Konstanz, Germany, in September 2014, a new Sixth Form Centre opened for Grey Courts founding sixth form students. The school occupies a large acreage in Ham, with playing fields, the schools current head teacher is Maggie Bailey. The school was opened in 1956 to provide education for the children of the newly constructed Estate, the school was built in the grounds of the Georgian Grey Court House from which it took its name. The house itself was renamed Newman House after Cardinal Newman, who lived there as a child in the early 19th century, andrew Gilligan, journalist and Londons Cycling Commissioner Patrick Bossert Ruby Bentall Morgan Nicholls Adam Bloom Ara Bedrossian Audio Bullys Katie Walker

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Orleans Park School
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Orleans Park School is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in Twickenham area of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England. It is situated 10 miles south-west of central London, the school is situated in part of the former grounds of nearby Orleans House. Covering 16 acres, it opened on the site in 1973. Orleans Park teaches pupils in years 7–11, with 8 tutor groups in school year. Since 2014 there has been a Sixth Form, with 6 tutor groups in each of the two years, the school gained the status of a Mathematics and Computing College in September 2003, then also became a Language College in September 2008. The school converted to academy status on 1 September 2012, the uniform consists of a maroon sweatshirt, a white polo shirt and black trousers, both the polo shirt and the sweatshirt display the schools new logo, interlocked letters O and P. The new uniform is gray/skirt trousers with a maroon v neck sweater with a gold band around the v. There is also the Orleans park writing and logo in gold, under this is a white shirt with a normal collar

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Richmond Park Academy
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Richmond Park Academy is an academy status secondary school in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It is part of the Academies Enterprise Trust Academy chain, Richmond Park Academy was formed in 2010 when academy status was granted to the predecessor Shene School. The academy is led by Paul Mundy-Castle, and is managed by the Academies Enterprise Trust, in 2011 the academy secured almost £10 million of government funding for building improvements. Renovation and new building work was finished in 2015, with an opening by Dame Jacqueline Wilson. Richmond Park Academy is the most recent in a succession of schools that have occupied the location on Park Avenue and Hertford Avenue, in the most populous areas of Surrey, parents were for the most part obliged to be content to give their children an Elementary education. Richmond County was to be one of a series of new Technical Buildings erected or being erected by the County Council in the seven towns of the county. The school was opened on 2 July 1895 on land in Kew Road, the buildings occupied a prominent site on the Kew Road at the corner of Selwyn Avenue. This building housed both the Technical Institute and secondary school, pupils residing in Surrey paid £6 per year, whilst those from outside the county paid £10. The school began with a headmaster and five assistant masters, with visiting staff for the teaching of Art, Singing, French, originally there were 50 boys between 11 and 16 and by 1901, when the new south wing was added, numbers had increased. An extension comprising a hall, four classrooms a gymnasium/drill hall. The first headmaster, A E Buckhurst, was succeeded in 1912 by T W Beasley who continued in office until the amalgamation with East Sheen County School for Boys in 1939. When the school merged with East Sheen County School for Boys in 1939 the school moved out of the Kew Road premises leaving the Technical Institute as sole occupants of the Kew Road site. The Technical Institute continued up to the Second World War when it was put on a basis and used as an A. R. P. It was revived as the Technical Institute and School of Art for Richmond and Barnes in 1947, East Sheen County School for Boys opened on 18 January 1927 on Hertford Avenue. The first headmaster was Mr H. H. Shephard, then aged 33, ninety pupils gained entry via the Common Entrance Examination and fifteen boys were transferred from Richmond County Boys School. Provision was made for 20 county scholarship places and by 1928 the intake had risen to 210 boys, Shepherd established use of the House system. All boys were members of one of four houses, each house name derived from the names of local roads, the houses remained in use until the closure of the school in the 1970s. In 1930 an area of the Hertford Avenue site was fenced off to build the school which opened in 1931

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German School London
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The German School London is a school based at the Grade II* listed building Douglas House in Petersham in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It includes a kindergarten, pre-school, elementary school, middle school, the German School London has established a bilingual system so that students have the choice between two different qualifications, the Abitur and the International Baccalaureate. The Federal Republic of Germany bought Douglas House and grounds in 1969, the house became the reception and school offices. The school opened in September 1971, additional school buildings, designed by the German firm Kersten Mertinoff & Struhk, were erected in the grounds between 1972 and 1983. The executive architects were W H Marmorek and Clifford Culpin & Partners, the school opened to primarily serve children of diplomatic staff from the embassies of German-speaking countries, while some expatriate children were enrolled. The School Associations Board, an group that operates the school, determines the school’s financial, economic and legal business, as well as budgeting. The school largely follows the curriculum of Baden-Württemberg, English it taught from the first year and the aim is for students to be fully bilingual to be able to attend both German and English universities on graduation. Since July 2013 the school has been exempt from the British EYFS learning, the curriculum in the elementary school consists of German, English, mathematics, social studies & sciences, music, arts, religion and physical education. In middle and upper school students study 10 to 13 subjects – German, English, French or Latin, mathematics, physics, chemistry, music, arts, religion or ethics, history, geography, students can choose Spanish as an additional language. The number and variety of subjects varies according to the students grade, the school offers a broad and differentiated education with bilingual units for different talents and prepares students for university life. The school has offered the International Baccalaureate since 2010, it is taught in English, students in Years 11 and 12 can, if they wish, study for both the International Baccalaureate and the Abitur. In 2000, about 36 of the teachers were locally hired, the school provides networking opportunities for adults from the German community. Much of the social activities and sporting clubs for Germans are organised around the school. Teams from the school have taken part in sporting events in soccer, basketball, volleyball, badminton. The school also takes part in art such as the annual exhibition of the Royal College of Art. There are also programmes for students in Years 10,11 and 12, the school has its own charity group, DSLaktiv – Schüler für Schüler, founded in 2010. Every year students in the group choose a different charity to support and organise activities, as well as teaching the German curriculum the school promotes German culture. Every school year there are readings by authors and poets and performances by musicians, the school has Osterbrunnen and Oktoberfest celebrations, as well as Weihnachtsmarkt, a Christmas fair

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Hampton School
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Hampton School is an independent boys day school in Hampton, Greater London, England. Although Hampton School was founded in 1557, there was provision in the will that the school would continue as long as the vicar, churchwardens. If not, then the properties would revert to his heirs and it seems that the school did not survive beyond 1568, or possibly earlier, and the properties reverted to the heirs. Subsequently, however, the school re-opened in 1612 and this was as a result of a Commission established to enquire into the fate of Tudor charities that had disappeared for various reasons. The learned counsell on bothe sides reached deadlock at the Commissioners, however, in the spirit of compromise and through the generosity of the then legal owner of the properties, Nicholas Pigeon, the school was re-endowed. The early school was on the site of St Marys Church by the River Thames and it moved to a site on Upper Sunbury Road in 1880. The new school buildings cost £8,000 and were built in the Elizabethan Tudor style to accommodate 125 day boys and 25 boarders, the school moved to its present site on Hanworth Road in 1939. The new 28 acre site allowed for expansion and the potential to provide for 600-650 boys, the foundation stone was laid on 5 July 1938 and a year later the school was opened. It is next to The Lady Eleanor Holles School for girls, with which it co-operates in a number of activities and shares several classes, clubs, facilities. Headmaster Barry Martin retired in July 2013 after 16 years of service and he was succeeded by Kevin Knibbs. Founders Day is celebrated by the school towards the end of academic year. The occasion is marked by a procession of boys walking from the school to St. Marys Church, through the Form Charity programme the whole school community helps raise money and awareness for good causes locally, nationally, and internationally. In 2012/13, over £25,000 was raised by Form Charity, a Level Results for 2012-2013, 31% of the mainstream grades were A*s,74. 23% were at A*-A and 94. 6% were at A*-B. Thirty boys sat the Pre-U Exam in Physics,18 of whom were graded D2, the equivalent of an A*, nearly all leavers secured places at an elite university and thirty one Oxbridge offers were confirmed. The School’s results are significantly above the figures and almost all Fifth Formers stay on in the Sixth Form. These are results for GCSE in 2012-13,89. 64% of the grades were A*s and As, the national figure for A* grades for boys in 2013 was 5. 3%. One boy achieved 11 A* grades, twenty achieved 10 and 14 achieved 9, A* grades accounted for over 57% of all grades awarded. There was a 99. 89% A*-C grade pass rate, in Mathematics, Geography, Physics and Biology boys follow the more rigorous IGCSE courses

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Kew College
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Kew College is a non-denominational mixed preparatory school in Kew in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Despite its name, Kew College is solely a school for children aged 3 to 11. Kew College began in 1927 as a school located in a room above a shop in Kew. As the number of pupils grew, the moved to a large Victorian house in Cumberland Road. In 1953 the school expanded into a house in Cumberland Road. It became a charitable trust in 1983, Kew College averages 292 pupils between the ages of 3 and 11

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Lady Eleanor Holles School
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The Lady Eleanor Holles School is an independent day school for girls in Hampton, London. It is a member of the Girls Schools Association, first located in St Giles, in the Cripplegate Ward of the City of London, its original site is marked by a plaque on one of the Barbican walkways. The school later occupied other premises in the City until 1878, the building is now home to the London College of Fashion. The current premises in Hampton were purpose built, and were opened on 7 December 1937 by Princess Alice, the building was designed in the shape of an E. The school was thought to have founded in 1711, but records show it functioning in 1710. The school recently celebrated its 300th anniversary with a service at St Pauls Cathedral, according to the Good Schools Guide, Lady Eleanor Holles School is Deservedly one of the top girls schools in the country. It also states that the school is Highly sought-after for its delivery, celebration of female success, top of the range facilities. The school is known for success in rowing, tennis and lacrosse, there are also sports teams in trampolining, lacrosse, netball, tennis, gymnastics, athletics, rounders, swimming, rowing and fencing. Clubs within the school include Amnesty International, Chess Club, Debating Society, Christian Union, Choirs, Orchestral, in 2010 the Holles Singers, a choir at the school, won the BBC Youth Choir of the Year. This school has achieved many high qualities, and can be known for some across the globe and they are also rivals to st pauls girls school in sport. Heather Hanbury - appointed September 2014 Gillian Low 2004-2014, gauri Kumar, Junior Winner of the 2016 Commonwealth Essay. Official website Profile at the Good Schools Guide Schools Guide 2011 - The Lady Eleanor Holles School, the Lady Eleanor Holles School DVD

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Royal Ballet School
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The Royal Ballet School is one of the worlds greatest centres of classical ballet training. The Schools aim is to train and educate outstanding classical ballet dancers for The Royal Ballet, the school is based over two sites, White Lodge, Richmond Park and Covent Garden based in purpose-built studios on Floral Street, adjacent to the Royal Opera House. Graduates of the school have also achieved employment in musical theatre, contemporary and jazz dance, television, in 1926, the Irish-born dancer Ninette de Valois founded the Academy of Choreographic Art, a dance school for girls and the predecessor of todays Royal Ballet School. Her intention was to form a repertory company and school, leading her to collaborate with the Inglisch theatrical producer. Baylis owned the Old Vic theatre and acquired Sadlers Wells theatre in 1925, at the same time, the Vic-Wells Ballet Company was formed using students of the school and other notable dancers of the era. Both the school and the company developed quickly and after ballet performances ceased at the Old Vic. Following rapid expansion, in 1955 the school secured the premises at White Lodge in Richmond Park and this was established at the time as the Royal Ballet Lower School, a residential boarding school for children aged 11–16, combining general education and vocational ballet training. The Royal Ballet School Upper School was established at the existing premises in Barons Court with students studying ballet on a full-time basis between the ages of 16–19. In October 1956, a Royal Charter was granted officially linking the company and school and they became The Royal Ballet School. A second smaller company still performed at Sadlers Wells and toured around the UK, a bridge was constructed between the school and the Opera House, linking the school with the theatre and The Royal Ballet Companys own studios. The designer of the received an architectural award and it is known as the Bridge of Aspiration. The Royal Ballet Schools younger students moved to White Lodge, Richmond Park in Richmond, the Georgian building is a former royal residence and hunting lodge built during the reign of King George II. It is the Schools permanent premises and there has been redevelopment of the site to provide state of the art dance and academic facilities. Children attend the school between the ages of 11-16 and entry to the school is by audition only, the school receives over twenty thousand applications every year and holds auditions in major UK cities. Having an international reputation, the school receives applications from other countries. As a boarding school, the majority of live on site. Hi In dance, students study ballet, character dance, contemporary, gymnastics, Irish, Morris. Later in their training, students study ballet repertoire, solos and pas de deux, the school offers academic study at the level of a typical secondary school, both at Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4, with all students sitting GCSE examinations

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The Swedish School in London
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The Swedish School in London is an independent school and boarding school in England. The sixth form of the school has two programmes, a programme, and a social science programme focusing on civics or economics. The school was founded in 1907 in Harcourt Street, central London, the lower school moved to Barnes in 1976 and the gymnasium was previously within accommodation rented from a sixth form college in Twickenham. Stockholm International School - Anglo-American school in Stockholm The Swedish School in London website Ofsted inspection report

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Svenska Skolan London (Swedish School in London)

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Richmond upon Thames College
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Richmond upon Thames College is a College of General Further and Higher Education located on a single site in Twickenham. It provides education and training to 16- to 18-year-olds and adults from across Richmond, London, Surrey, the college is currently involved in a redevelopment project of its existing 22-acre estate. The first phase of this project should be completed in 2017, the College was formed in 1977 by a merger of the sixth form colleges from Shene and Thames Valley with the former Twickenham College of Technology on its site. The college currently has around 3,000 full-time students, parking is available on the campus for both staff and students and there are a number of food outlets. The college is one of the largest suppliers of students to university, the college is situated in Twickenham, Greater London less than a kilometre from the English national rugby stadium. The nearest rail link is Twickenham Station and the nearest underground connections are Richmond and it is also served by local bus routes notably the 281 between Tolworth and Twickenham and the 267 between Fulwell and Hammersmith

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Alcott House
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Alcott House in Ham, Surrey, was the home of a utopian spiritual community and progressive school which lasted from 1838 to 1848. Supporters of Alcott House, or the Concordium, were a key group involved in the formation of the Vegetarian Society in 1847. Together with his followers, who included Charles Lane – and the help of sponsors, Sophia. The Ham Common Concordium, as it came to be known, consisted of a working mixed cooperative community, the men grew their hair and beards long and wore loose fitting clothes, while the women defied convention by not wearing the traditional, restrictive corset. Alcott House school was open to children from both inside and outside the community – the latter usually from radical parents who sympathised with its progressive educational stance. The curriculum emphasised moral education and the development of the childs innate spiritual gifts, teaching skills such as gardening. Punishment was frowned upon and education aimed to produce men and women, able to live in a truly cooperative society. In 1848, the community came to an end and the house was purchased by John Minter Morgan to provide an orphanage, in 1856 the foundation stone was laid of a new building on the site, South Lodge, which exists to this day. The new building has been converted to flats and the grounds have developed as Bishops Close. Fruitlands See also The New Age, and Concordium Gazette which was the journal of the Ham Common Concordium, forty Years Recollections, Literary and Political. London, S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, bronson Alcott at Alcott house, England, and Fruitlands, New England. Latham, Jackie E. M. Search for a new Eden, trahair, R. C. S. Utopias and Utopians, an historical dictionary

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Thames Valley Grammar School
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Thames Valley Grammar School was a co-educational grammar school in Twickenham, Middlesex, England. Thames Valley Grammar School opened in 1928 under one of the youngest headmasters in the country, Mr H. W, initially conceived as a boys school, unusually for the time it opened, and remained, as a co-educational establishment. Bligh remained at the school until his retirement in 1960, succeed by Dr. Mortimer who, in turn and its final secondary intake was in 1972 and from 1973 it gradually changed into a sixth-form college, Thames Valley Sixth Form College. In 1977, the merged with the Shene College and Twickenham Technical College at the Technical College site in Egerton Road to become Richmond upon Thames College. The Thames Valley site became home for Kneller Girls School in 1978 who merged on the site with Twickenham County School for Girls in 1980 to become Waldegrave School for Girls

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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation

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Longitude lines are perpendicular and latitude lines are parallel to the equator.